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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS INFORMATION RELATING TO PERSONAL INJURY, ELECTRICAL SHOCK, AND FIRE HAZARD POSSIBILITIES HAS BEEN INCLUDED IN THIS LIST. WARNING- When using any electrical or electronic product, 8. This product was NOT designed for use in wet/damp basic precautions should always be followed. These locations and should not be used near water or exposed to precautions include, but are not limited to, the following: rain. Examples of wet /damp locations are; near a swimming pool, spa,
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CONTENTS BEFORE YOU BEGIN ....................................................7 FRONT PANEL .......................................................10 REAR PANEL .........................................................15 SYSTEM LOGIC......................................................17 GETTING STARTED ...................................................43 SETUP & PLAY ......................................................44 LOADING & PLAYING THE DEMO...........................52 PROGRAMMING ..
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STORE MODE.............................................................129 BEFORE YOU BEGIN STORE MULTI ......................................................129 STORE VOICE ......................................................130 DISK MODE ................................................................131 GETTING STARTED DISK STATUS.......................................................133 SAVE TO DISK .....................................................134 LOAD FROM DISK ...................
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THANK YOU FOR PURCHASING THE YAMAHA W5/W7 MUSIC SYNTHESIZER The Yamaha W5 (76-key) / W7 (61-key) Music Synthesizer is a full-featured, professional level music production and performance keyboard complete with 32-note synthesizer and sequencer, extensive voice and song editing capabilities, digital effects, GM compatibility and much more. Featuring Yamaha s unique AWM2 (second generation Advanced Wave Memory) tone generation system, where sounds are generated from high quality digital recordings
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PRECAUTIONS IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ BEFORE PROCEEDING. The W5/W7 is a powerful electronic musical instrument featuring sensitive high technol- ogy. To ensure many years of trouble-free use, please take the important precautions below seriously. LOCATION backup battery replaced by qualified Yamaha service l In order to avoid causing serious damage to the W5/W7, do personnel. Do not attempt to replace the backup battery not expose the instrument to direct sunlight, high tempera- yourself. tures, ex
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l Make regular backup copies of important data to a separate millimeters. If this happens, do not attempt to pull out the floppy disk, and keep your backup disks in a separate, safe partially ejected disk, since using force in this situation can place. damage the disk drive mechanism or the floppy disk. To remove a partially ejected disk, try pressing the eject button l To ensure the safety of your data (and of the disk drive once again, or push the disk back into the slot and then itself) alway
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN BEFORE YOU BEGIN Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of the Yamaha W5/W7 Music Synthe- sizer. The W5/W7 is a self contained, full-featured, easy-to-operate multitimbral music production and performance workstation, complete with 32-note polyphonic synthesizer, 16-track sequencer, full voice and song editing capabilities, studio quality digital effects, powerful stereo sound mixing features, large memory capacity, on-board floppy disk drive, GM compatibility, friendly us
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN l GENERAL MIDI Global standard configuration of 128 instrument voices and specified MIDI channel assignments and other parameters. General MIDI lets you load and play music data created by another sequencer and saved to disk in the Standard MIDI File format. ABOUT THE GM SYSTEM LEVEL 1 The General MIDI ( GM ) world standard protocol was developed by a consortium of musical instrument hardware and software makers in order to minimize confusion and the need for reprogram- ming wh
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN l 75 DIGITAL EFFECTS Two independent, studio quality DSP effects systems Insertion Effects and System Effects each with three different types of effects generators. An Inser- tion Effect can be assigned to each voice in Voice Edit Mode, and switched on and off via the mixer. As many as three Insertion Effects can be used in a multi. The three System Effects can be applied to the overall sound mix. Preset stereo effects ¤ include reverb, delay, chorus, auto panning, 3-band EQ, A
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN FRONT PANEL DIAGRAM & FEATURES 14 7 4 5 6 MODE VOLUME CS SONG VOICE EDIT UTILITY SHIFT F1 F2 F JOB DISK 8 9 STORE VOICE EDIT ELEMENT SELECT ON/OF 1 2 3 4 1 2 TRACK SEQUENCER SELECT SOLO 1 2 3 4 5 6 RECORD STOP/TOP RUN 11 10 PITCH MODULATION 2 3 NOTE: The above diagram is the 61-key W7 Music Synthesizer. The 76-key W5 has precisely the same on-board controls and internal operating systemonly the number of keys on the keyboard is different. 10
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN 13 15 16 17 18 19 CANCEL 7 8 9 4 5 6 1 2 3 F3F4F5F6F7F8 EXIT REST TIE UTILITY DATA/CURSOR ENTER 0 – FF VOICE EDIT 20 3 4 COMMON ELEMENT AMP FILTER PITCH EFFECT LFO CONTROL DEC INC 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 21 12 1 11
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN KEYBOARD 76-key (W5) or 61-key (W-7) keyboard with key-on velocity sensitivity and channel aftertouch sensitivity gives you full control over expression and nuance as you play. PITCH AND MODULATION WHEELS The pitch wheel lets you bend the pitch up or down as you play. It is spring-loaded to return to center position when you let go of it. The modulation wheel lets you apply or set a designated amount of vibrato or tremolo. You can also assign it to affect EG bias, filter cutoff,
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN VOICE EDIT BUTTON For switching directly into Voice Edit Mode, regardless of whatever mode you re in at the time, to access the voice editing functions and parameters. During the editing operation, pressing VOICE EDIT lets you compare the sound of the voice you re editing to the sound of the original voice you started from. In Voice Edit Mode the VOICE EDIT button lights in orange (as do various TRACK buttons, which in Voice Edit Mode double as voice editing function and element
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN DATA ENTRY KEYPAD For precise, specific entry of data, by punching in a number, then pressing ENTER. The [—] button lets you enter a negative value. In Song Record Mode you can enter music notation values according to the corresponding musical symbols and indica- tions printed above the buttons. ENTER is used to execute many different operations. CANCEL BUTTON If you change a parameter and then decide you want to retrieve the previous data value, pressing CANCEL before proceedin
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN REAR PANEL DIAGRAM & FEATURES CAUTION RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN MODEL SER.NO. ATTENTION:RISQUE DE CHOC ELECTRIQUE NE PAS OUVRIR. PATENTS US4584921 US4967635 US4738179 US4731835 WARNIING TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FIRE OR ELECTRIC US4763553 US4731835 SHOCK. DO NOT EXPOSE THIS PRODUCT TO RAIN OR MOISTURE. THIS DEVICE COMPLIES WITH PART 15 OF THE FCC RULES. OPERATION IS SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TWO CONDITIONS: YAMAHA CORPORATION (1)THIS DEVICE MAY NOT CAUSE HARMFUL INTERFERENCE
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN FOOT CONTROLLER JACK An optional Yamaha FC7 or FC9 foot controller connected here can be used for amplitude modulation, pitch modulation, frequency modulation, envelope generator bias, and filter cutoff frequency control. FOOT VOLUME JACK An optional FC7 or FC9 foot controller connected here can be used to regulate overall volume. OUTPUT JACKS Audio outputs for monitoring the W5/W7 by external amplification in either stereo or mono. If a plug is inserted into only the L/MONO jac
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN SYSTEM LOGIC MUSICIANS WORKSTATION The W5/W7 Music Synthesizer is a true music workstation designed with the com- poser as well as performer in mind. In one streamlined, easy-to-use package is bundled all the tools a musician needs to concentrate on making music naturally whether compos- ing, recording, performing or practicing rather than being distracted by lots of machines and cables. The W5/W7 comes equipped with 32-note polyphonic keyboard, 16-track, 16-song sequencer, full
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN SYSTEM OVERVIEW 128 normal + 2 drum Song voice memory (Volatile RAM) 16-song “External” sequencer normal and drum memory voice memory (Volatile RAM) (Optional) 128 normal + 2 drum Internal voice memory (RAM) Song Sequencer 128 normal + 2 drum Preset voice Record memory (ROM) Edit 128 normal + 8 drum GM voice Disk Drive memory (ROM) Job Voice Edit Buffer 16-song multi memory (RAM) Tone Generator Controller Keyboard System Insertion Effect Effect L Data entry R 16 Tracks 16 Instru
